The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-10-28

take, made man and woman for a speeife
"ork-and 70 move IN particular spheres-Enan
% . re5ilililt IN has realm. woman to be dOmi-
LAM LAM IN hers. The boundary line between
Italy and Switzerland between England and
Scotland, IS not more thoroughly marked
t-An TINS distinction between the empire
masculine and the empire feminine 50 en-
tresy disSimiiar are the fields to which God
called them, that you can 10 more compare
tnein IMAM you can oxygen and hydrogen.
water and grass trees an stars. All this
TAX about the superiority of one sex To the
other sex Is an everlasting waste of ink and
speech jeweler may have a scale 50
Delicate that he can weigh the dust Of dia-
inonds; but where are the scales 50 delicate
that he can weigh in them affection against
Affection, sentiment against sentiment.
thougnt against thought, soul against soul,
a mans world against womans worldi
lou come out with your stsreotyped
remark, the man is superior 10 wo-
man in intellect. and then l open
on my desk the swarthy, iror-typed
thunderbolted writings OF Harriet Martineau
and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot.
You come On with your stene0typed remark
about wonau's superiority TO man in the item
Of affection; but ask you where was there
more capacity 10 love than in John the
Disciple, and Robert McCheyne, the Scotch
man. and John Symmetrical the Methodist
and Henry Martin the missionary The heart
OF those men was 50 large that after YOU
bad rolled into it two helnispheres there
hosts Of heaven and set up the throne
Of the eternal jehovah l DENY TO man
the throne Intellectual deny to woman the
throne adectloaal No human phraseology
vii ever define the spheres while there Is
an intuition by which we know when man
Is in his realm, and when a women is in her
realm, and when either of them Is out OF il.
linz lafrr
make definition, or to say: This Is the line
and that IS the line Ny theory is that II
4 woman wants TO vote she ought To vote.
ana that If man wants TO embroider and
keep house, he ought to be allowed to en-
broider and keep house. There are masculine
women and there are elIeminate men Ny
theory is, that you have no right to interfere
with any ones doing anything that is right
eous- Albany and Washington might as well
decree by legislation how nigh a brown
thrasier should fly, or how deep a trout
should plunge, as TO try TO seek out the
height or the depth Of weman's duty. The
question OF capacity will settle finally the
whole question, the whole subject When a
woman is prepared TO preach, She will preach,
and neither Conference nor Presbytery can
hinder her When a woman IS prepared &c
move in highest commercial spheres, she will
have great influence on the Exchange, and
no boards Of trade can hinder her. | want
woman 10 understand that heart and brain
can overly any barrier that politicians may
ST up, and that nothing can keep her back or
KEEP her down but the question OF incapacity.
There are women, know, Of most undesir-
able nature, who wander up and down the
COMMUNICATING no homes OF their own, or
forzakins their own homes-talking about
their rights: and we know very well that they
themselves are fit neither to vote nor fit to
keep house Their mission seems to be to hu-
-. ~. u.
any one Of is might become No one would
want to live under the laws that such women
would enact, or 70 have cast upon society the
children that such women would raise. But
shall show you this morning that the best
rights that woman can own, she already has
in her possession; that her position in this
country at this time is not one of cOmmisera-
ton, hut one Of eongratulation; that the
grandeur and power OF her realm have never
yet been appreciated that she sits to-day on
4 throne 50 high, that all the thrones of earth
piled on top Of each other would
not make for her footstool Here is the
platform on which she stands. Away down
ional assemblage and the Legislative hall
Woman always has voted and alwgys will
vote Our great grandfathers thought they
were by their votes putting Washington into
the presidential chair No. His mother, by
the principles she taught him, and by the
habits she inculcated. made him President Il
was a Christian mothers hand dropping the
ballot when Lorl BACON wrote, and Newton
phiiosophizej, AMI Alfred the Great gov
erned, and Jonathan Edwards Numbered OF
judgment TO come. How many men there
have been in high political station who would
have been insufficient to stand the test
70 which their moral principle was put had
il not been FOR a wife's voice that encouraged
them 70 do right, and a wifes prayer that
sounded louder than the clamor OF partisan
ship Why, my friends, the right OF suffer
age, as We men exercise 1t, seems to be a
feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come
up 70 the baliot-box and you drop your vote.
Right after You comes hbertine, or a sot-
the otfsco1ring OF the sfreet-and be drops
bis vote; and his vote counteracts yours. But
II in he quiet Of home life daughter by her
Christian demeanor, a wife by her industry,
. mother by her faithfuiness. casts vote in
the right direction, then nothing can resist it,
and the influence OK that vote viii throb
through tho eternities
Ny chs anxiety then is. not thst woman
have other rights accorded her: hut that she.
by the grace OF God, rise up to the apprecia-
ton Of the glorious rights she already pos
ses-s. This morning 1 shall only have time
10 speak Of one grand and al-absorbing
night that every woman has and that is to
make home happy. That realm no one has
ever disputed with her Men may come home
II noon or at night, and they tarry com
pafa.iFely little while: bat she, all day long,
governs II, beauties il, sanctities it 1t IS
sithin her power 70 maze it the most attrac-
i've place on earth. Ii Is the only calm har-
Dor IN this world. Non know as well as do, /
hat this outside world and the business world,
IS long scene Of iostle and contention The !
nan who has dollar struggles TO keep it; the |
nan Who has il not struggles TO get it Prices |
10. Prizes down Iossez Cams Misrep- |
tat Trtrfa
n delreciating : salesrnen exaggerating. /
tenants seeking less rents landlords de- |
handing more. Gold fidgetty Struggles |
bout Office Men who are in trying TO keep |
n men ont trying 10 get in. Slips. Tumbles. !
Jefeleations. RanicS- Catastrophes- o |
hat you may be queen in it. Better be there |
han wear Nicioria's coronet Better be |
here thsn carry the purse Of Princess.
or abode may be humble. but you can, by |
'our faith in God and your cheerfuness OF l
lemeanor, gid It with splendors such as an |
ipii0isterer's hand never yet kindled- There |
Ire aboias in the city-humble, two stories
and yet there is man
efI. fhis morning who would die on that /
threshold IA1a1r thar surrender it. |
Why Il is home Whenever lie kinks |
n Il. be sees angels OF God lowering
arouni it. The ladders Of heaven are let
tll4lllakzss
fhese that broke over Bethlehem It's home.
Thsse children may come up afte- a while,
and they may win high position, and they
may have an sfiluenr residence; but they will
no, Until their dying day forget that humble
rooi, under which their father rested, and
their mother sang. and their sisters played.
Oh. II you would gather up all tender mem
ORE, ali the lights and shades OF the heart,
all hanqustings and reunions, all filial, fra
ternal, pateranL and coniugal affections, and
you had only Just four letters with which 10
spell oct that height and depth, and length
and hrealth, and magnitude, and eternity Of
meaning, you would, with streaming eyes,
and trembling voice. and agitated hand.
write il out in those four living capital:
HOME
What right does woman want that IS
-rander than 70 be queen in such realm.
Why. the eagles OF heaven cannot fly across
that dominion Horses, painting and with
Iuther.d TANKS. are not swift enough to
run % the outposss OF that realm They
.ay that the sun Lever sets upon the English
empire. but have 70 tell you that on this
realm Of w0man's influence, eternity never
marks any bound Isabella fed from the
spanish throne. pursued by the nations
lnafh-ma. but she who IS queen IN home
siii never lOse her throne, and death itself
vii only Be the annexation OF heavenly prin-